Before building applications with the MERN stack, we first need to prepare the development environment with each technology, and also with tools to aid development and debugging. This chapter guides you through understanding workspace options, essential development tools, how to set up the MERN technologies in your workspace, and the steps to check this setup with actual code.
We are going to cover the following topics:
- Workspace options
- Code editors
- Chrome Developer Tools
- Git setup
- MongoDB setup
- Node setup
- npm modules to complete the MERN stack
- Code to check MERN setup
